9.04 Patch Notes

Greetings, Captains. The 9.04 update is deploying Wednesday, January 23rd at ~4:00 PM PDT. This update contains support for equipping Heavy Turrets in player bases, Bounty 17 (with improvements!), a Tier 7 PvP Refit Discount, and the Turrets of Terror Elite Campaign. Check out the details below!

HEAVY TURRETS (NOW FOR PLAYERS!)

Heavy Turrets with directional firing arcs, similar to the ones in current Siege Targets, are soon going to be available for you to obtain and equip! Here’s how they work:

Step 1: Equip a H-T Heavy Turret Transformer to your Defense Platforms. This transformer is required to equip Heavy Turrets. It also increases the Power Capacity of the turret by a large amount, so that power-hungry Heavy Turrets can be equipped. It also converts the visual appearance of the turret to a Heavy Turret, which visually indicates which direction the turret is facing.

Step 2: Equip a Heavy Turret! Two Heavy Turrets release as prizes in Bounty 17. The first, the Thunderlord Mortar Battery, is a long-range turret with a 180 degree firing arc and a minimum range, designed to provide firing support against long-range threats. The second, Stormbringer Missiles is a penetrative heavy weapon featuring a 60 degree firing arc and a hard-hitting single target missile. Combine this with portals and lurkers to make VERY UNSAFE ZONES in your base.

Step 3: Choose the Defense Platform Facing Direction.Heavy Turrets do not have a 360 degree firing arc, and the strategy for their use comes directly from how you set them up to defend very specific parts of your base. So set the direction you want your Defense Platform and Heavy Turret to face by clicking on the Defense Platform and selecting its facing option. This is the exact same process as setting the facing direction for a defense ship.

When spending Bounty points, secured bounty will be spent before unsecured bounty

To prevent the same player from being hit over and over again by the same person, you can now only attack a player 4 times over the course of a Bounty. If you reach your 4 attack limit on a player, you will need to find a different player to attack.

[Relocation] Players can relocate to inactive bases in invalid sectors. Some players had inactive friends in sectors that no longer existed. When attempting to relocate to their friends base, this would put them in a sector that no longer existed. Leaving them trapped in their base and unable to access the worldmap.

[Skins] Royal skins not able to be fitted to hulls. Players were unable to equip the Royal skins for the Bat Ray and Razortail